Chapter 223: Spies
"No, no, Colonel!" Colonel Mario hurriedly replied, "I'd love to go with you!" ”
Colonel Mario had to be "willing", because he knew that if this German colonel insisted, General Bergonzoli would also have to obey his orders...... If General Boganzoli had been wronged, then he would be doomed as an adjutant.
So the group of people quickly got into a jeep and drove to the front.
It was a small force, consisting of three jeeps and a car full of German soldiers, which, combined with the tasks they carried out, made them look more like a group of gendarmes.
"Are you Italian?" Mario asked Alfredo, who was sitting in the passenger seat.
Alfredo was called by Qin Chuan to be a translator.
"Yes, sir!" Alfredo replied: "Second Lieutenant Alfredo of the Automobile Regiment of the Sixty-fifth Division of the Twenty-second Army, sir! ”
"Oh!" Colonel Mario glanced at Alfredo in surprise and asked in Italian, "But you're wearing a German uniform!" ”
"Yes, sir!" Alfredo replied: "I fight with them!" ”
"Why?" Colonel Mario asked.
Then, as if he understood something, he said with a contemptuous smile, "I see, you enjoy the feeling of being on top, just like they just did...... A colonel can command a general, a second lieutenant can command me to do things! ”
"Sir, with all due respect!" Alfredo replied: "I think you should be honored by it!" ”
"Honored?" Colonel Mario almost laughed: "You mean a second lieutenant is pointing fingers in front of me, and I should be honored?!" ”
"That's because you don't know who that second lieutenant is!" "If you think it's important just because of your rank, you're obviously wrong," Alfredo said. In fact, this ensign is far more important than Colonel Slain, at least that's what we think! ”
Colonel Mario's face couldn't help but change, and then he looked at the car Qin Chuan was sitting in behind and asked, "Who is he?" ”
"I think you've heard of him!" Alfredo said, "He's the legendary sergeant, and now he should be the legendary ensign!" ”
Colonel Mario's mouth opened wide in shock, he looked back again in disbelief, and said, "He's the legendary sergeant?" The legendary sergeant who led the Germans to Alexander? ”
"Yes, that's him!" Alfredo replied: "I fought with him, so ...... You would say that I enjoy that feeling of being on top, because I have always been proud of the fact that my unit has witnessed every victory and every miracle! ”
Colonel Mario couldn't help but nodded, and then suddenly realized something: "You're not here to purge the spies, are you?" ”
"Why do you say that?" Alfredo asked rhetorically.
"You don't need a legendary sergeant to purge spies!" Colonel Mario said, "He must be here for another purpose......"
"I don't know!" Alfredo replied: "But one thing is clear to me, as Colonel Slane said, you just have to do what the second lieutenant says, and there will be no problems!" ”
Colonel Mario nodded, then asked with interest, "Hey, those legends are true!" ”
"Of course it's true!" Alfredo replied: "And what I know is definitely much more wonderful than the legend......"
Qin Chuan, who was sitting in another car, only saw Alfredo in front of him chatting with Colonel Mario, and then when they arrived at the front line and stopped the car, Colonel Mario changed his previous negative attitude and stepped forward to shake hands with Qin Chuan very enthusiastically.
"It's an honor to meet you, Second Lieutenant!" Colonel Mario said, "Happy to serve you!" ”
Qin Chuan looked at Alfredo unexpectedly, and Alfredo just grimaced in response.
The upside of this is that the rest of the work is much easier.
Qin Chuan first gathered those on the suspicious list...... There are fifty-seven.
Then Qin Chuan and Alfredo questioned them for a while, and this kind of investigation obviously would not lead to anything...... Because, as General Bergonzoli said, many Libyans have no home address at all, so they can't even prove that they are Libyans.
Of course, this is not Qin Chuan's purpose either.
Soon, Colonel Slane was on fire.
"Fuck it, we don't need to waste time on these inferior people at all!" Colonel Slane said, "There must be spies among them, so we can solve the problem by killing them all!" ”
"No, Colonel!" "It's not fair to the Libyans, who fought for Italy, or for Germany, but were shot because of real spies......," Qin Chuan said.
"I don't agree with that, Colonel!" The German adjutant also interjected: "These Libyans are a bunch of poor people, they become soldiers because they don't want to starve, if they are executed like this......"
"Shut up!" Colonel Slain said, "Don't you know that the British are going to attack in a few days? The Libyans are of little help to us, but the intelligence leaked by the spies threatens to cost us dearly! ”
"But we've got them under control!" Qin Chuan said: "They can no longer transmit intelligence to the British!" ”
"That's not enough!" Colonel Slain objected: "Someday they will make us pay!" ”
……
While arguing with Colonel Slain, Qin Chuan aimed his gaze at the group of "suspicious elements", and sure enough, he saw two of them floating around with panicked eyes.
This means that they can understand German...... Qin Chuan, Colonel Slein and even the German adjutants were arguing in German, and ordinary Libyans certainly did not understand German, only trained British spies would, because only then would they be able to get more information.
Because of this, the two spies knew that Colonel Slane was going to execute them all, so there was no point in continuing to disguise them.
They were waiting for their chance, for a chance to escape.
And it was such a coincidence, at this time, a jeep stopped beside everyone with a "whoosh", and the German driver seemed to have something urgent to report to Colonel Slain, so he jumped out of the car and ran to Colonel Slain without turning off the engine.
When it was too late, the two spies took advantage of the fact that they were not paying attention, quietly approached the jeep, and then jumped on the accelerator with a "kick", and the jeep rushed towards the direction of the British army as fast as possible in the surprised eyes of everyone......